I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
